Split commands and options from CLI

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Hi 👋

This is a very small 1.33 KB package that does just one simple task to get the user's input data passed from your terminal, split it and send it back to and object, That's it, no big config or API just a tiny function.

Install

npm i argv-user-input

Usage 💡

#!/usr/bin/env node
import parseArgvData from 'argv-user-input';
const argvs = parseArgvData();

foo.js

With no commands or options.

$ foo.js

console.log(argvs);
/*
{
  commands: [],
  options: {},
}
*/

With commands and no option.

$ foo.js start test

console.log(argvs);
/*
{
  commands: ['start', 'test'],
  options: {},
}
*/

With commands and options.

$ foo.js start test --skip -p ./dev

console.log(argvs);
/*
{
  commands: ['start', 'test'],
  options: {
    skip: true,
    p: './dev'
  },
}
*/

With option and no command.

$ foo.js --name=foo

console.log(argvs);
/*
{
  commands: [],
  options: {
    name: 'foo'
  },
}
*/

Good code and have fun ✨

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